It PAYS to clean your desk.. I just found $1200.00

[SoCalDem]

Almost 3 years ago, I "misplaced" it.. I knew it was around here somewhere..

anyhoo.. I decided that my current desk is not working for me, so I started cleaning out drawers that i haven't used in ages..

Found a bunch of old checkbook covers that needed tossing..Thankfully I looked in each before throwing into the trash.. The 4th one had 12 crisp Ben Franklins tucked away in it.:)

Love "found money" :)


Moral of the story..

Whoever cleans out my house when I die, had better look in every pocket, every envelope..:evilgrin:

[MrScorpio]

1. I'll be over for dinner

I like Turkish

[SoCalDem]

3. Turkish?

coffee??
towels??
taffee??

[madeline_con]

6. Turkish Delight...

Remember that from "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe"???

[MrScorpio]

7. I'd like a spread like this:

Some of this is good:



Don't skimp in this:



Or this:




Turkish, baby!

[Orrin_73]

17. watching these pictures brings tears

in my eyes. The last time I was in Turkey was 2 years ago and my mother is presently in Turkey. Danggg

[SoCalDem]

18. Better go visit her before the whole middle east blows up

Once the civil war in Iraq gets going, travel might be dicey..or bring her here :)

[Liberal Veteran]

19. No....turkish hash!

:smoke:

[SoCalDem]

24. hash...coming right up

[NMMNG]

2. Damn! The best thing I found recently was a $20 in an old purse

I like your desk better than my old purse.

[SoCalDem]

5. I'm trying to remember if I misplaced anymore

I only cleaned ONE drawer so far:)

I'm on a TREASURE hunt :)

somewhere around here there's a graduation card with a Benjamin in it.. I forgot to mail it, so I sent the kid a check.. I think that card is in my kitchen somewhere :)

[NMMNG]

8. It's all about the Benjamins n/t

[madeline_con]

4. Get the f$#% out!

I emember the dayswhen I'd finda 20 in my jacket pocket the first time I used it in the Fall, and incidents like that.

Now that I'm a Mom, I never seem to have any I can "misplace".

[SoCalDem]

9. The loot and what filled the empty drawer

Sammy !

[AntiCoup2K4]

10. I did something like that once

I was a teenager and didn't have a checking account or anything like that. So I had about $400 saved up in a roll of $20's, but couldn't remember where the Hell I stashed it.

Months later it turned up... in the package of my Flight Simulator software (for the Commodore 64). I swear to God I never remembered hiding the money there.

[SoCalDem]

11. I am a RELENTLESS stasher

I have something sitting out for MONTHS, and then finally decide to "put it in a safe place"...Then I spend AGES trying to remember where I put it:)

[barb162]

32. I still haven't found a box of jewelry I stashed before vacation

in March

[ChoralScholar]

44. My father has two 100 dollar bills laying out on the bar.

They've been there for 3 or 4 years. He says "I guess I just want to see how long they'll sit there."

[SoCalDem]

49. Wow.. there must not be many teenagers hanging around..OR

Dad's retribution must be fearsome:scared:

[girl gone mad]

12. Once, when I lived in a seedy part of town...

My apartment was broken into. I had a trunk full of books. I had stashed several hundred dollars in the books. The robbers stole the trunk.

I almost had a heart attack when I got home, since that was my rent money. Then I noticed that they had dumped all of the books out onto the floor.

LOL

Oh, and the robbers werw actually a couple of drag queens from down the street that I was friends with. I knew this because they were in there the day before talking about how much they liked the trunk. And I was still friends with them afterwards, too. The trunk wasn't worth losing friends over, but the rent money might have been. My landlord was crazy from untreated syphillis, so I already had enough problems as it was.

[ps1074]

13. I guess it's party time then

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[cornermouse]

14. Please come clean my desk?

:)

[SoCalDem]

25. Trade you..your mess for mine

minus the "treasure" of course:evilgrin:

[ahem]

15. I cleaned my desk last week. My haul: a torn dollar and two m&ms.

:(

[Liberal Veteran]

20. Your haul was better than mine...

Mine was a canadian penny and some pocket lint.

[ahem]

21. Maybe we can pool our found fortunes together and really splurge it on

something nice from the dollar store. I think we may be a little short on tax though. And I ate the m&ms.

[Liberal Veteran]

22. Cept I'll have to take a trip to "Canadia" to spend my money...

:cry:

[ahem]

23. Well if we just act real cool we might be able to pass it off here!

Sometimes it works! :toast:

[Jamastiene]

16. No, no, it's mine.

I "lost" it in your desk. :evilgrin:

Hey, ya can't blame a girl for trying.

[steely]

26. $1200.00 is a bit unusual - but point taken.

mom recently found a birthday card of my sisters' w/ 30 bucks in it - it was >20 years old.

[SoCalDem]

27. It was my bowling league secretary money.. I get $12 a person

for managing the league all season long...there are 100 people.. I set it aside so i wouldn't be tempted to take it to Vegas..

When we got back, I couldn't remember where I had put it.. THREE years later, ..whooop there it is:)

[pitohui]

28. party at socaldem's place

i'll bring the johnny walker blue & the metal detector

:woohoo:

now seriously go & put that $$$ in an interest-paying acct

[Rising Phoenix]

29. Go you! I"ve never found more than $20.

[Nay]

30. I did this recently, too -- hubby was cleaning out the car trunk,

and under the mat and tire, he found an envelope I had hidden there during a vacation trip last year (you know, put a bit of money and ID here and there, so if you're robbed of your wallets, you aren't totally broke?).

17 brand-new hundred-dollar bills. Can't believe I forgot about them, since I'm a real cheapskate. I do remember coming back from that vacation, looking in my wallet, and wondering, "gee, I didn't think I spent THAT much money..."

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

31. found money is great

I wouldn't mind finding 1200$ right about now, so I could pay to get my car's transmission replaced... Guess I better start lookin'.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

33. Care to loan it to me?

:D

[Clintmax]

34. Holey Moley I wish I could find that much!

I have so many "nooks and crannies" around this place I wouldn't even know where to begin. Congrats on your find! Must feel sweet!

[SoCalDem]

35. Tr5uthfully, I was a bit afraid I had tossed it out by accident.

I am famous for stashing money in envelopes, and that the end of a bowling season, I purge my old records and throw a LOT of envelopes & records away..
I was actually thinking i had accidentally thrown it out.. So gald I didn;t :)

[Clintmax]

36. OK...that's a scary thought...

I would be in a total PANIC if I thought I threw out all that money! Glad you found it!

[SoCalDem]

37. Took me almost 3 years, though

:)

[zigster]

38. Lucky you....

After my Grandfather died I was sent to his apartment to remove whatever garbage was leftover there (otherwise the management would withhold the security deposit). All I found was a wooden coat hanger from Brown's Hotel (a once very world famous hotel in the Catskills. Opened for business in 1944. Sold for 5.3 million in 1988) and a dollar and fifty cents in quarters which paid for my bus fare on the way home.

[In_The_Wind]

39. Isn't 'found money' wonderful!

I go looking in all of my coat pockets when I need more money than what's in my wallet.


My dad used to let me keep all the money I found while doing the laundry ... way back when I was a little girl. It made the chore of washing clothes feel like it wasn't so bad after all.

[DS1]

40. I'm sorry, those bills have expired

Send them to me for proper disposal.

[lovelaureng]

41. Damn, I need to clean mine more often. n\t

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. I could never lose $!200 and not panic over it. I would have found it

ASAP

[Bat Boy]

43. How do you lose $1200.00 and not tear your place apart to find it?

Jesus...That's rent! And groceries!

[tjdee]

46. I know--I would have missed that money a LOT.

Every now and then I am reminded that everyone isn't as poor as me, LOL.

$1200?? I would not have slept, ate, anything until I found that money.

[Bat Boy]

48. I wouldn't have slept or ate either.

But that would have been because I had been kicked out of my apartment and had no food...

[SoCalDem]

50. I DID tear the place apart, but after NOT finding it, I just assumed

that I had accidentally tossed it into the trash with the loads of end-of-season envelopes & reports.

Instead of stressing, I just considered it gone,. and told myself that perhaps someone who REALLLLLLLY needed it would find it:)

My friend sold her truck for $1500, and the same day a friend repaid her the $1k they owed her.. She had $2500 in her pocket and after having it there all afternoon, she decided it would be safer in her purse.. They all went to dinner at ElTorito, and when she reached for her purse to pay the bill...you got it.. someone had stolen her purse..:cry:

Moral of story.. LEAVE things where they are..

[miss_kitty]

45. would you come clean MY desk?

There might be enough there to do a laundry load-wash AND dry!

:silly:

[Left Is Write]

47. Oh, my.

A few times, I've found tens and twenties that I'd tucked away...but 1200 bucks?

I'd do a few cartwheels around the living room.

[NaturalHigh]

51. When my wife and I got married,

she found $180 that I had stashed away and completely forgotten. If she hadn't found it, I would have undoubtedly ended up throwing away the envelope that it was in.